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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is easy.  If the middle class families aren't able to concentrate by the results of neighborhood demographics, or choosing some special program en mass, they leave!  For charters, private whatever.  So dcps has to choose.  Concentrate them, or lose them.  That is what has gone on unofficially for years at Hardy, Stuart Hobson and Jefferson long ago. Middle class families finding a place to concentrate themselves.   Question is, as those middle class families begin to appear different ( more white ) will this concentrating be a political problem.  [/quote]

The last two posts are good descriptions.

What about creating a school that concentrates strong students, but also has a fair representation of struggling kids?  Eliot Hine can hold 800+ kids.  If half of those students were proficient or advanced, then you would have the critical mass for advanced classes and all the good stuff Deal has.  Also, with Eastern next door, advanced programming, music and arts programming and what-not would benefit from the economy of scale that would come with Eliot Hine and Eastern working together.  The thing needed to make it work is collecting enough strong middle grade students to make it work - DCPS has to earn the trust of parents that they will actually make it happen.

And if you started getting people used to goign to Eliot Hine / Eastern then you'd develop vertical integration between the schools and hopefully generate momentum for students to stay in DCPS through 12th grade.

And imagine Ward 6 fielding really good sports teams because our school is as big as Ballou and Wilson / or Deal.[/quote]

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